Professional Standards

**About US**

UniSuper is a place where brilliant thinkers and passionate people come together. As one of Australia's largest super funds, the work you'll do with us makes a meaningful difference today and tomorrow for our members, the planet and for you.

We offer an impressive range of benefits that includes a achievable annual bonus; additional leave including 3 days over Christmas and 3 days 'Community and Culture' leave allowing you to celebrate and contribute to things that are important to you outside of work; the opportunity to choose between 17% and 11% superannuation; $1500 personal development budget and expectational parental leave.

**The opportunity**

This role is accountable for the development, maintenance and embedding of professional standards to support the team in the delivery of advice and education to members, and clients, together with supporting the optimisation of the governance framework of the Financial Advice & Education (FA&E) team to effectively manage operational risk.

We expect each employee to live our values and behavioural expectations each day. In addition to this you will:

- Lead the development and maintenance of professional standards, ensuring that all professional standards are well understand and applied consistently by the FA&E Team
- Ensure that professional standards balance regulatory obligations and operational efficiency in the context of managing the FA&E team's operational risk
- Collaborate with members of the broader FA&E team, to develop insights on how professional standards and being applied
- Lead the development and maintenance of appropriate templates and tools to support members of the FA&E throughout their interactions with members and clients
- Contribute to risk management and compliance obligations by participating in the identification of relevant risks faced by the FA&E team and considering the best ways to manage those risks via effective controls
- Provide regular reporting to the FA&E Leadership Team and Obligation Owners on the effectiveness of obligation linked controls and ongoing compliance, enabling a proactive response to any gaps identified
- Design and deliver comprehensive training programs to educate advice staff on regulatory changes, professional standards, and compliance obligations
- Oversee the centralised onboarding of new members of the FA&E team and ensure that appropriate training, education, and support is provided

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will bring:

- Passion for Financial Advice and the positive impact it has on clients achieving their goals
- Experience in creating, management, and embedding a professional standard framework together with an understanding of risk and compliance management frameworks
- The ability to balance the client experience, achieving operational efficiency while at the same time satisfying regulatory obligations
- Strong technical leadership based on industry knowledge and experience and sound knowledge of the regulatory framework under which Financial Planning and Superannuation funds operate
- Strong stakeholder management and experience in developing external business relationships
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate to achieve beneficial outcomes while having conviction and being pragmatic, and logical, in approach and decision making
- Relevant qualifications in Financial Planning, commerce and/or legal related fields

We're passionate about knowledge and sharing it amongst our members and our employees, therefore we believe that a balance of working from home and time in office is the best way to collaborate and build relationships with your colleagues. We ask you to be able to commit to 60% of your time in office.

**Think Great. Create Great.